Nutritional status assessment – a professional responsibility in community nursing
It is challenging for community nurses to screen their patients’ nutritional risk because the guidelines fail to take sufficient account of the domestic arena.
It is challenging for community nurses to screen their patients’ nutritional risk because the guidelines fail to take sufficient account of the domestic arena.
Although there are procedures for medication reconciliation, the process is challenging to implement and the allocation of responsibility is unclear.
Heart disease increases the risk of depression. How can we best identify depressed cardiac patients?
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More families had daily access to doctors during the pandemic than before the pandemic. But the nurses were involved in fewer conversations.
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They believe that they have their highest level of competence within the competence area ‘Value-based nursing care’.
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